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Corrélation n’est pas causalité, a-t-on appris en classe de terminale. Certes. Mais, tout de même, cette transformation du paysage politique occidental suit la courbe de l’ascension des réseaux sociaux dans la sphère médiatique. Comme si l’émergence protestataire épousait le remplacement progressif des médias traditionnels par les réseaux sociaux. Ceux-là se prêtent non seulement à toutes les…

The announcement follows Samsung recently announcing a wider variety of display choices on its home appliances, ranging from 4.3 inches all the way up to 32 inches. It’s all part of the company’s strategy to put “screens everywhere,” instead of easy-to-use buttons and dials that rarely fail and are cheap to replace. — Read on…

There have always been college-sports fans on the internet, consigned to some of the worst message boards you can possibly imagine, but it’s only in the past decade that the internet has become so ubiquitous and culturally hegemonic that it’s been able to sustain a large population of current and former fraternity members, degenerate gamblers,…

A shitcoin refers to a cryptocurrency with little to no value, authenticity, or utility. These tokens are created with minimal innovation or purpose but often as a joke or for a quick-profit scheme. Many of these tokens (popularly known as meme coins) are inspired by current world happenings, internet jokes or memes. Because most shitcoins…

She shared memes about noted Bitcoin maximalist executive Michael Saylor and began regularly tweeting “gm 𝕏”—which nominally stands for “good morning,” but is also kind of a whole thing across the engagement-farming cryptolands of Elon Musk’s X. Survival of the fittest doesn’t always mean survival of the truth. All you have to do is browse…

But when it comes to conscious tasks and memories, Dr. Sauerbrei said, he was convinced that very little information flows through the brain. “I think their argument is pretty airtight,” he said. Martin Wiener, a neuroscientist at George Mason University, said that the new study should prompt researchers to compare our information flow with that…

The first dogs began evolving 40,000 to 14,000 years ago, when humans lived as foragers. (Some evidence suggests that this first version of domestication may have occurred multiple times around the world.) Our ancestors left garbage and waste outside of camp, and the wolves that took advantage of this predictable, energy-rich food source gained a…

As Jeffing cuts the chances of injury, people are able to exercise consistently, with all the mental and physical benefits this brings. Galloway describes these benefits as “circuits”. “The ‘good attitude’ circuit sees your stresses disappear,” he says. “You then have the ‘vitality’ circuit. You might lack energy at the start [of your workout] but…

“I like to think of it as: imagine yourself and a three-year-old. We’ll be the three-year-olds,” he said. — Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather-of-ai-raises-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years

Every day, we walk Odie along the same paths. He eats the same food at the same time. We use the same words to the same effect. For a life so circumscribed, how is it that our bounties feel so limitless? In a life of ups and downs, perhaps it is the uncomplicated nature of…